Sam might not know this, there is a message behind the posture of the soul form. Particularly Dormant soul which is the accurate clone of the emotions and memories with no actual free will. Its form would be instinctual and it represents their mindset.
Sivan's form which is a man huddling himself is a symbol of fear. He clearly knows that, but every soul he has seen until now, are always worse than him, there are few that are a bit better, but they are all weak.
This is the first time, he saw a soul as strong as him or even stronger than him, but have this kind of posture.
The soul looked like it belongs to a man who can take on the burden of the whole world solely on his shoulders without a second thought.
He gritted his teeth and tried to probe the soul.
The Ghost Chimera that sensed the activity against the soul, immediately targeted Sivan's soul, all the faces made their way towards him as they roared soundlessly.
Sivan flinched and got away and the ghost chimera went back to the dormant soul.
"I will defeat you."
Sivan said in a deep voice before he went out.
"Let's go. I need to train."
Sivan said to Butler Si as they both left.
Meanwhile, Sam is looking at the rules of tournaments with a weird expression.
"No wonder, the guards are important."
For the past three days, Sam learned a lot about this tournament. This is actually a recruitment ground.
There is a special group of people who are the most important guests. They are the recruiters. They come to another realm with a bunch of organizations that have Astral Plane Initiation stage leaders.
The people that gathered to participate in the tournament are actually from various sects ruling over the planets in a small realm and they all gathered here to organize the tournament so that the recruiters might take a liking to their candidates and take them back to their realm where the organizations would be selecting their preferred candidates after reviewing the recruiters' reports.
But the participation rules are what is different.
Each candidate will have a sphere which they should guard. The very reason for employing the guards is this. Of course, some people take this chance to make the guards protect themselves from the other candidates.
Candidates can kill each other and do whatever they want. Except for the guards killing the candidates, anything and everything is acceptable. Sam never saw competition as simpleminded as this.
The winning is also just as simple. The person with most spheres at the end of the whole competition until only the candidate remains and the rest of them either quits or dies.
As for the selection criteria, only ten people will be selected. The first five will be the last five people to stay in the game while the last five would be the special choices of the recruiters or simply put some recommendation jobs.
In the first three days of interactive time, they have been showcasing what organizations are selecting and Aiwa is already hooked with one of them that is located in icy mountains.
"Just give the sphere to me and let me follow you. Problem solved."
That is all Sam has to say for this.
"Old Man Sam, no offense, but you are a cripple, and you were abandoned in a snowy plain for a few days. Are you sure that you can take on the elite guards alone like that? I am thinking of trapping and hunting."
"No need. Let's just go and deal with them directly."
Sam said and took the sphere from her hands as they roamed around.
When the first group of people came at them, he just aimed his finger at them and threw those energy bullets.
Three guards just exploded right before everyone's eyes.
Aiwa was stunned for a second, but she proceeded to fight with her first target and within fifteen minutes, she got the sphere.
The same thing kept on repeating for the rest of the day and the rest of the candidates immediately hid for the rest of the day.
But as if they knew all of their locations, Sam and Aiwa managed to track them down and capture them easily.
By the end of the second day, the competition was cut short. The leaders of other sects are furious, their candidates were taken down by Aiwa like they are little kids being bullied.
But they couldn't care less.
The top position was hers. They waited for another three days for the Consummate stage competition to be over and finally, they are out of that realm.
But they were not directly sent to their desired organization, rather there is some kind of special meeting and ceremony where the organizations can try and poach the twenty candidates in the two divisions combined along with a lot of other candidates that came from other realms just like them.
Sam is a bit overwhelmed by all the processes. Except for the selection process for the Palace of inheritance, none of the other selections were this hard and complicated, but the tests are simple and direct.
But at that point, Aiwa finally hit the first obstacle with the recruiter responsible for her admission into the organization she wants.
The young master of the organization who seems to be the prime disciple of the organization actually came to the selection process and it seems like he is really lustful.
"Can you believe it? That bastard asked me to sleep with him if I want to join the Ice temple. I want to kill him. I want to kill him."
Sam didn't know what to say about that. He really wanted to go and kill them immediately, but he figured that entering an organization when a friend of hers destroyed the prime disciples and the elders supporting him would not be a good start.
So, he became sensible and gave her advice.
"Go and talk to the elders. I remember they sent you an invitation to come and meet them. Bring the tokens I sent you."
"Are you sure those tokens are going to help me at all? You are just a cripple abandoned in the snow plains, they are the elders of the organization for god's sake?"
"You have been saying this for a long time. I am telling you, even if the leader of the organization comes at me, I will be able to deal with him easily. So, just go and talk to them and make sure to stress that you don't want any of those kinds of deals."
"Okay." She just shrugged and went to the elders. She wanted to do that anyway.
But when she met with the elders and explained the situation, their answers almost made her want to quit the whole selection process and get out of there.
"You might think of quitting this, but the Grand Elder, Madam Aqua has taken a liking to you, if you don't agree with young master's request, then it would be your loss. You have a chance to be a disciple of her. You better think clearly."
Aiwa was stuck, she really didn't know what to do at the moment. There is no way she is going to sleep with some creep to get a disciple position and she doesn't want to lose the chance to be a disciple of this amazing woman.
She has heard of her a lot in the past three days and she is really looking forward to just meeting her. She instinctually chugged the glass of wine on her table and as soon as she did, she realized it is a mistake.
She felt the effect of aphrodisiac immediately and the prime disciple or whatever that guy's name is coming out.
He caught ahold Aiwa's hair and said.
"Don't worry, the disciple position of the grand elder is at least worth your virginity."
Prime Disciple's hand was suddenly frozen and Aiwa punched on that frozen hand. A large ice shard entered the arm and tore it through until it reached the shoulder.
One of the Elders caught hold of Aiwa and held her in his grasp as the other one attended to the prime disciple's injury.
"Young master. Please go back to your room. We will bring her there."
"Don't make her faint. I want her to be awake while I do her."
With that, he was gone.
Aiwa tried to struggle out of the grasp of the elder, but she couldn't. Her strength is not enough and in desperation, she reached out to the token, Sam gave out and used it on the elder directly.
*BooM* *SPLASH*
The energy bullet exploded his head and splashed it all over her.
Sam who is meditating as he tried to probe the soul of Sivan a bit suddenly only opened his eyes.
He looked in the direction, Aiwa went and hopped onto his feet as he leaped towards it.
Some people are going to die today. It is about time he really got something to vent and the reason is also perfect.
